Travel and Leisure's website has a slideshow of "The World's Scariest Runways."
Some of the usual suspects are on there, like TGU in Honduras, but I was surprised to see the Canarsie Approach to 13L mentioned.
Travel and Leisure's website has a slideshow of "The World's Scariest Runways."
Some of the usual suspects are on there, like TGU in Honduras, but I was surprised to see the Canarsie Approach to 13L mentioned.
Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. We have a small problem.
All four engines have stopped. We are doing our damnedest to get them under control.
I trust you are not in too much distress. —Captain Eric Moody, British Airways Flight 9
I would think that if there was going to be a local airport on that list, that LGA's shorter runways with water at BOTH ends would have gotten it mentioned. Interesting nonetheless.
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i'd love to know who made that list. st. maarten is a straight-in approach, so you can slow down as much as possible before rubbing rubber on the asphalt. KDCA's river visual is hardly white-knuckle. i'd love to go into either barra, scotland or matekane air strip in lesotho. now those look like fun!
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it is mathematically impossible for either hummingbirds, or helicopters to fly. fortunately, neither are aware of this.
They fail to mention the scariest thing about 13L is the 22 intersection. The turn is nothing when you think if either plane aborts they can collide into each other..
13L? Thats not even the runway in the image is it? And Jamaica Bay isn't exactly at the end of it - though some marsh is.
A survey of pilots some years back put LGA on their list.
Tom
"Keep 'em Flying"
The picture is showing 4L
"lol retart"
The approach into Cusco is much more scarier than the approach into 13L and it wasn't even mentioned!
Yes, that photo doesn't show the Canarsie Approach at all. It does look like Rwy 4L/22R. Neither 13L nor 13R are depicted. I disagree that the Canarsie Approach is so scary except when the ceiling starts to deteriorate. The LGA Visual/Expressway 31 Approach is much scarier, as is the EWR Approach when aircraft turn into Rwy 31 in strong winds. Interesting to note, that "knock on wood", these approaches have not had accidents that I am aware of.
I'd say it's scarier for westbound drivers on the Belt Parkway than it is for anyone on the aircraft!
Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. We have a small problem.
All four engines have stopped. We are doing our damnedest to get them under control.
I trust you are not in too much distress. —Captain Eric Moody, British Airways Flight 9
Here are a couple of good 13L approach cockpit vids...
Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. We have a small problem.
All four engines have stopped. We are doing our damnedest to get them under control.
I trust you are not in too much distress. —Captain Eric Moody, British Airways Flight 9
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